An Abundance of Hope

Life offers many forms of personal growth. This has been my thought since the day that I was extended an invitation to participate with Servicio Pan Americano de Salud/ Pan American Health Service, Inc in hosting a visiting Medical Team to serve in field clinics to the mountains.

From this experience, I noted that many times our own pride and other sentiments related to greed and envy hinder us from seeing that even the air that we breathe is an enormous blessing since it is, after all, indispensable to life. We believe that all things are given to us “JUST BECAUSE” and we never stop to think about why we have them.I had the opportunity to see, indeed to palpate the hunger, the despair, the pain, and to experience the feeling of being forgotten. Even though I see many people in our cities daily living in total poverty, I can assure you this was my first experience in experiencing utter misery. I also experienced an abundance of HOPE that exists in this measure of poverty.

And it is in this hope that we are all called to participate in with our full energy, with our all for a childhood free of abuses.It is striking to observe how in our classic families the brand of our shoes, our clothing, and our toys dominate our existence. I ask myself: Are we really educating our children for Life? Are the children we gave life to conscious of what the World is living outside the windows of our warm home?